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^ 1431. 0;/^.— From ]\Tr. J. D. Hoy, tlirough Mr. Salmon, 1846. 



§ 1432. 6>;^^.— From Dr. Pitman, 1846. 



^ 1433. Tliree. — Switzerland. From M. Nager-Donazain, 1846. 



S 1434. Two. — Switzerland. From the Geneva Museum, 1846. 



\ 1435. One. — Switzerland. From M. Nager-Donazain, 1847. 



Others, obtained at the same time, given to Mr. R. Wigrara, 

 Mr. Bond, and Mr. Milner. 



[§ 1436. One.— Yyqiw M. Lefevre, through Dr. Frere, 1850.] 



\S 1437. 0;^^.— 10 May, 1854. From Herr Seidensacher, 

 through M. Edouard Verreaux, 1859.] 



[§ 1438. Four. — From M. Nager-Donazain, 1859.] 



\S 1439. Four.—'' Saxony." From Herr Moschler, 1862.J 



[§ 1440. /S'/>.— From M. Favier, 1866.] 



[§ 1441. Five. — Loesche-les-Bains, Canton Valais, 12 May, 

 1885. From Mr. S. B. Wilson, 1886.] 



\S 1442. i^o^^r.— Canillo, Andorra, 24 May, 1889. From 

 Mr. W. E. Clarke, 1890. 



From a nest in the wall of a Dovecote {cf. Ibis, 1889, p. 535).] ' 



' [In addition to the foregoing the collection contains one of the four ^%%^ 

 taken in May 1854, between Ollerton and Edwinstowe, as described bj^ the late 

 Mr. Sterland in his ' Birds of Sherwood Forest ' (p. 67), and attributed by him 

 to this species. He gave it to me in 1869. He was, so far as I know, fully 

 competent to distinguish the Black Eedstart from any other bird, and of his 

 veracity I entertain uo doubt. He positively declares that " the female was on 

 the nest" when he found it ; but he does not say that he had a good view of her. 

 His description of the nest shews that it was both in site and structure wholly dif- 

 ferent from that which the Black Redstart usually builds ; but, on the other hand 

 the ^^^^ when placed in a series of Black Redstarts' is indistinguishable from the 

 rest. A case almost precisely similar was recorded in 1852 by the late Mr. R. W. 

 Hawkins (Zoologist, p. 3503), though he never saw the bird. One of tlie eggs he 



